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Civil War Day-By-Day

April 23, 1861

  • Federal troops withdraw from the garrison at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
  • George McClellan appointed Major General of the Ohio militia by Governor William Dennison.
  • Nominated by Governor Letcher of Virginia and approved by the Assembly on the previous day, Robert E. Lee assumes command of Virginia’s militia.
  • Virginia secessionist convention ratifies a temporary union with the Confederacy and accepts the Southern Constitution, subject to approval of the ordnance of secession
  • United State Army Officers in San Antonio, Texas are seized as prisoners of war

A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1

  • First South Carolina regiment started for the Potomac.
  • Legislature of Vermont convened in extra session.

  1. A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
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